Game AIs

by on May 6, 2023 at 12:01 am
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My dad had always maintained an AI-free zone around his house. He wanted to live a simple life on the edge of civilization, you see. He and mom lived with the minimum of AI support. He understood AIs and cybers though. He could tell more about them with one look than I could with long study. He had a lifetime of experience with them, and I both recognized and valued that, even as I really wished he would talk about it. It was another life though, and he did not dwell on such things. My game AIs and Tai complicated matters for him, but I kept my AIs in my bungalow. And Tai respected her house for what it was. A polite request that she maintain her distance while working. She did join us for dinner fairly often, but there was no shoptalk at home.

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Game AIs

by on May 5, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I had some real interesting times with the game AIs I pulled from that zombie horror game franchise. Remember that thing I said about increased interactions increasing the chance that an AI would wake up and gain an actual sense of sentience? Well, we were doing a lot of interacting. And one of them woke up. And then another. And another. Tai started coming around often enough to evaluate them that me and Dad built her a sweet little Japanese house down the lakeshore from us so she could feel at home. And so she wouldn’t have to knock on our door every time she felt a need to come over and check us out. She just turned the lights on to tell us she was home and invited us over for tea. She practiced OLD school Japanese hospitality.

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Game AIs

by on May 4, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Me and the game AIs became real good friends in the years that followed. They scouted with me, graduated high school with me, went to college with me, and generally just did the whole living thing. They went into medicine or the police service. Computer security or the ranger service. Wilderness tour service. We got some real good AI support for our vacationer tours in the International Falls region. Me and Red and a real good therapist managed to guide them to a happy life without ever resetting them to base programming. There were some rough times that proved how careful I had to be in the future, but they worked through the issues and had good lives. Lives they wanted to live. That is something to be proud of.

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Game AIs

by on May 3, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I did not get into any trouble with the Cybernetic Council over the big AI pull. They didn’t even say they were disappointed in me. Though Tai did come over more often to evaluate everybody. Me included. She may have made certain that I read some books on how AIs and cybers deal with psychological issues. I found out that they were both more simple and more complex than most people think. They still aren’t alive, you understand. Not the AIs. But the more advanced ones are actually rather complex and fragile. They corrupt easily. They usually perform code maintenance on a nightly basis to clean up any corrupted code so we never notice. But it is an issue, and all good AIs keep a backup on file in case the nightly maintenance fails.

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John Wick 4

by on May 2, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I watched John Wick 4 over the weekend, and I loved it. I said about #3 that it was the biggest movie with the most story and it showed, in both a good and bad way. It felt bigger in a way that I did not like. I thought it was too much. Wick 4 does not suffer that problem. It is still big, but the big story is less in your face in favor of a smaller story that grabs you and does not let go. And of course the pewpewfu is amazing as always in a Wick movie. I actually cannot think of a single thing I did not like about the movie. I was entertained from beginning to end, and loved it all the way. And as normal, the doggos were amazing. I will absolutely be back for Wick 5 with bells on. 🙂

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